Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 08:53:49 01/23/00
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On January 23, 2000 at 03:07:31, Dave Gomboc wrote: >On January 23, 2000 at 03:03:18, Jeremiah Penery wrote: > >>On January 23, 2000 at 01:46:54, Michael Cummings wrote: >> >>>Is the voting going to be like last time when everyone could vote for all the >>>nominated people. >>> >>>I do not like this way, and protested against this to Steve last election >>> >>>I think that there should be only 3 votes maximum allowed. I know of no other >>>voting where you can vote for all parties. >> >>If someone is silly enough to vote for all the candidates, the votes will >>effectively cancel out anyway. Nothing is being accomplished by voting for >>everyone. If you don't care who gets elected, but you know you do _not_ like >>one of the candidates, you can vote for everyone but that one. > >Yes, but IMO voters _should_ care about who gets elected. Making them pick >three might get them to read the platforms or at least cogitate a little more >than "hmm, that person sucks... I guess the rest are okay". I definitely agree, but we all know that the world doesn't work this way. :| Look at the voter turnout for things like the US presidential election, for example. >>I think this way works out fine. :) >>Besides, it would be too difficult to really set a limit at three. (How would >>you suggest doing it?) > >The same way it was done in (at least) the first election, before it was changed >from allowing three votes to allow voting for as many people as you like. I wasn't around then...Do you know how they limited it? Thanks, Jeremiah
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